Biden’s Embellishments Could Provide Easy Fodder for GOP

By Bill Sammon When Joe Biden claimed at a Democratic debate last year that he had been “shot at” while visiting Baghdad’s Green Zone, the press didn’t bother to check it out, since Biden’s White House bid seemed unlikely to succeed. But now that he has been catapulted into contention by virtue of being selected as Barack Obama’s running mate, Biden and such bullet-dodging tales may be subjected to a level of scrutiny that tripped up Hillary Clinton when she falsely claimed to have come under sniper fire in Bosnia. And Republicans would have a litany of apparent inconsistencies and embellishments to pick through. For example, Biden claimed in 2006 that he chided President Bush in a private conversation. “When I speak to the president,” he told Bill Maher on HBO, “I’ll literally turn to the president and say, ‘Mister President, how can you say that, knowing you don’t know the facts?’” “He said, ‘I have ... (link)